BitTorrent to start certifying devices, launching an all-in-one client
"Today's generation of consumer electronics devices are more powerful than ever before, but they still lack cohesiveness and ease of use for content playback," Shahi Ghanem, chief strategist and executive vice president at BitTorrent, said in a statement. "Consumers shouldn't need to differentiate between codecs, file formats, bit rates, and other technology jargon. Content playback should just work regardless of content type or source. BitTorrent's new development partnership with ITRI's Information and Communications Research Laboratories, one of the world's preeminent research institutes, coupled with close relationships with Taiwanese technology companies, will help us create a new generation of devices that offer consumers a simple promise: your files will play."
Sometime this quarter, BitTorrent will replace its mainline client (Torrent will live on as the minimal client) with a new all-in-one solution for media entertainment that will be part of the BitTorrent Certified technology ecosystem. The new client will integrate search, downloads, and playback on multiple devices, according to TorrentFreak.
Earlier this month, the company announced that BitTorrent and Torrent hit 100 million monthly users. On an average day, 20 million users from over 220 countries use either of the two BitTorrent clients, available in 52 languages, and 400,000 new clients are downloaded every day.
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